Posted: Mon 24 May 2010, 14:18 Post_subject:
Pcrypt/PdircryptSub_title: made new gui for bcrypt and ccrypt

Hello

Made a "new" gui for bcrypt and ccrypt this afternoon, first made by coolpup. Don't know if someone is interested in and need some feedback.
I'll post two pictures of it and later the progs.
Questions:
- should I put bcrypt and ccrypt into it?
- made changes to the mime types to detect encryptet files, also include?
- at the moment german and english in one file -> only english?
- zip directoriy with xarchive, better commandline? (with xarchive you can make changes and it's better to handle)
- two progs at the moment, make it into one?

Thanks Lobster for your answers. Made a new one and hope it'll be good.

It's a simple frontend for bcyrpt, which is NOT into this package.

1. Choose between file or directory encryption.
2. Choose dir/file
3. If directory => choose if you want to zip it into one file
4. That's it

You can only encrypt directories without subdirectories. No option for more in bcrypt.
Files (*.bfe) are not automatically detected, you have to edit your globs file for mime detection. You can decrypt .bfe files by right clicking and OpenWith/Pdecrypt.

Please test the file and give me a feedback, so I can make a final one.

With ccrypt you can encrypt directories with the -r option. Why not take this one?

It's a simple graphical user interface to bcrypt.
You can en-/decrypt any file or directorie (without sub directories) by typing, dragging or choosing. It can compress your directorie after encryption.
Encrypted files will be saved with the extension *.bfe. If you add a line to your mime globs, files will automatically detected and opened with a terminal window for encryption or you can open them via right click and send to Pdecrypt.

Blowfish is no longer recommended by its creator:
"At this point, though, I'm amazed it's still being used. If people ask, I recommend Twofish instead." (Schneier, 1997)
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/46254/bruce_almighty_schneier_preaches_security_linux_faithful/?pp=1&fp=4194304&fpid=1

Yes I know, but for normal encryption it's doing a good job. It's not my intention to use military encryption. It's just made to make it a little difficult to read/open files that are not for everyone. Blowfish is still not broken.
If I want to make it reallly secure you can use Truecrypt or even LUKS with cryptsetup. I mentioned ccrypt bevore. With twofish you haven't got an extension like .bfe. So you'll have to remember your encrypted files.

But you're right! Ccrypt is the better solution and I'll make the same gui for it!
Edit II: updated to version 1.1 (thanks Sit Heel Speak)

What would make this absolutely fantastic (it's already great) would be to include ROX right click options for files and directories..

Because it would be really nice and easy to right click on a directory or text file and choose to encrypt/decrypt, like with the EncFS tool by jamesbond, which is linked to previously. on this thread..._________________Akita Linux, VLC-GTK, Pup Search, Pup File Search